Upcoming material

Welcome to the under-construction Fifteen Charisma. Since you've already gotten sucked into reading this, here's some fair warning on what's ahead over the next few weeks.

[SRS] = How Seriously You Should Take This Category of Posts

Movie Reviews. [SRS: 'not very' to 'somewhere in the middle'. I like my movies, but my rationale for liking and disliking them is not always immediately recognizable. I enjoyed Constantine but not No Country for Old Men.]

Music. [SRS? Not very - I have eclectic tastes. My favorite artists are a Canadian folk-punk group, a British New Wave metal band...and Rush.]

(Yes, if you're wondering, the point of these examples is to destroy my credibility before I can build it back up again. Good insight.)

Sports. [SRS?: Inversely proportional to your distance from Boston, MA].

Politics. [SRS? Directly proportional to the degree to which you agree with me.]

Local Cuisine. [SRS? Only if math metaphors make you frustrated and hungry.]

Gaming. [SRS? If you have a vague sense for where the title comes from, or if you just rolled to save against a Confusion spell, you might be a good candidate for reading these.]

Things to Watch Out For:

-Fascism. Despite my general political sympathies and cool-mindedness, I suffer from bouts of literary neurosis and occasional posts may consequently devolve into hyperbolic proto-authoritarian rants. [Remember, fascism is in all of us. It's our duty to root it out by whatever violent and obsessive means possible.]

-Sonnets. Those more free-verse inclined
Ought not read on; here's only rhyme
And reason, subject to maligned
Tetrameter. [Think it a crime?
The comments section calls for truth.
(read here: obscenities uncouth.)]
Contradictions, here explicit
Must be excused. My illicit
Deal with Structure, Verse's Devil,
Might just be worth a slice of soul
To make a half-coherent whole
Absent Shakespeare's diction. Revel
In the challenge: It's worked for me,
To one or other small degree.

Also beware:

-Lists that go on longer than originally planned and devolve into poetry.

-Posts dictating how seriously you should take something.

First posts coming this week. Stay tuned.

--kd